Literature and Social Studies

Question 1

The Vice-President is next in line to be President, who is after the Vice-President?

Accepted Answer

Speaker of the House

Question 2

How many Senators are there in Congress?

Accepted Answer

100

Question 3

Which letter represented the "Scarlett Letter"?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 4

Which famous captain was pursued in Moby DIck?

Accepted Answer

Cpt Ahab

Question 5

What is the largest state in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Alaska

Question 6

What 3 basic rights are listed in the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Life, Liberty, Pursuit of happiness

Question 7

Ebenezer Scrooge was a character in what Charles Dickens classic?

Accepted Answer

A Christmas Carol

Question 8

According to economics, what are the three basic needs?

Accepted Answer

Food, water, shelter

Question 9

Who was the pig spared from becoming pork roast in Charlotte's Web?

Accepted Answer

Wilbur

Question 10

How old do citizens have to be to vote?

Accepted Answer

18

Question 11

What was the title of JRR Tolkien's sequel to The Hobbit?

Accepted Answer

The Lord of the Rings

Question 12

Which Dr. Suess story is about a tree with a big heart?

Accepted Answer

The Giving Tree

Question 13

Author Mark Twain wrote about which of these characters?

Accepted Answer

Tom Sawyer

Question 14

How long do members of the House of Representatives get elected for?

Accepted Answer

2 yrs

Question 15

Which novel was first in this series?

Accepted Answer

Hunger Games

Question 16

Which famous "doctor" wrote The Cat in the Hat?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Suess

Question 17

Which individual had the least to do with the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Ronald Reagan

Question 18

Which of the following is not a cabinet department that advises the President?

Accepted Answer

Dept. of Social Studies

Question 19

What is the longest river in the United States?

Accepted Answer

The Missouri

Question 20

Which book is centered around a horse?

Accepted Answer

Black Beauty

Question 21

Which of the following people was not a U.S. President?

Accepted Answer

Bob Ericson

Question 22

Which book is about a little girl from Kansas?

Accepted Answer

The Wizard of Oz

Question 23

Which person penned the Harry Potter novels?

Accepted Answer

J.K. Rowling

Question 24

Which word least explains our govenment?

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 25

Which is not a branch of our government?

Accepted Answer

Bureaucratic

Question 26

Which man wrote Carrie and Cujo long with many other scary novels?

Accepted Answer

Stephen King

Question 27

Which war happended closest to 2016?

Accepted Answer

Vietnam

Question 28

Which best describes George Orwell's novel Animal Farm?

Accepted Answer

Animals/communism

Question 29

Which Shakespeare play involves star-crossed lovers committing suicide?

Accepted Answer

Romeo and Juliet

Question 30

Which was not one of the 13 colonies/first 13 states?

Accepted Answer

Michigan

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